Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-01

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Becoming more and more dialectical as she
went on, she said suddenly, II have you of
myself offended You are mad Of me a.
bold, bad childi It is sol"
The senator, as visibly becoming limp and
weak again behind his entertainments, man
aged to say, "Oh, nop then "reallyl" and
finally, "Th-a-nksl"
'Iam here but for day. return to Cal
ifornia in day, a. it were tomorrow.
shall never, never hear you speak In your
place in the Capitol of this great countryT
The senator said hastily that he feared-he
in fact was convinced-that his duty during
this session was required more at his desk, in
the committee work, than in speaking, etc.,
etc.
"Ah," said Carmen sadly, "it is true, then,
all this that have heard. It is true that
what they have told me-that you have given
up the great party-that your voice Is not
longer heard in the old-what you call this
eh-the old issuesr
''If any one has told you that, Miss De
Haro," responded the senator sharply, "hs
has spoken foolishly. You have been misin-
formed. May ask who"
'.Ahl" said Carmen, II know noti It Is in
the air! am a stranger Perhaps am de-
ceived. But it is of all. say to them, When
shall hear him speaki I 60 day after day
to the Capitol, watch him-the great enan-
cipator-but it is Of business, shf-it b the
claim of that one, it is the tax, ehi it Il the
impost, it is the postoHice, but it il the great
speech of human rights-nevsr, never. Iay,
Ill kt.N III md
shake their heads, Never again hs speala'
He d what you cali 'played-yss, it s 70, shi
played out know it motif Il . word
from Boston, perhapsi They say be has
eh, speak not the English well-the party
he has shaken, 'shook'-yes-he has the party
'shahen,' ehi It d right-it h the language
Of Boston, ehp
"Psrmit mo to say, Miss De Haro," re-
turned the senator, rising with some asperity,
"that you seem to have been unfortunate IN
your selection of acquaintance, and still
mors 20 in your ideas of the derivations OF
the English tongue. The-er-the-er-ex-
preuions you have quoted are not common
to Boston, but emanate, believe, from the
west"
Carmen Do Haro contritsly buried every
thing but her black eyes in her shawl.
aNo one," he continued, more gently, sit
ting down again, ''has the right to forecast
from my past what intend to do in the fu-
ture, or designate the means may choose to
servo the principles I hold or the party rep
resent. Those are my functions. At tho
same time should occasion or opportunity
for we are within day or two of the close
of the session"
eyes, interrupted Carmen sadly, II SOC
it will be some business, some claim, some
thing for somebody-ahl Madre de Dios-
YOU will not speak, and l."
"When do you think of returningl" asked
the senator, with grave politeness; "when are
we to lose your NsssSl
~ shall stay to the last-to the end Of the
session. said Carmen. "And not0 I shall
CO." She got up and pulled her shawl
viciously over her shoulders, with pretty
pettishness, perhaps the most feminine thing
she had done that evening. Possibly, tho
most genuine.
The senator smiled affably: "You do not
deserve to be disappointed in either case; but
lt is later than you imagine; let me help you
On the shorter distance In my carriage; IL Il
at the door,"
He accompanied her gravely to the car
riage. As it rolled away she buried hsr little
figure in its ample cushions and chuckled to
herself, albeit little hysterically. When
she had reached her destination she found
herself crying, and hastily, and somewhat
ancrily, dried her eyes a. she drew up at the
door of her lodgings
,AHo7g g,-,rr :-;,u prosperedr as'sq.l III Har-